"People eat up a lot of bandwidth checking the upgrade list on their iPhone," Mr. Petersen said.
Familiarize yourself with the upgrade policies for elite passengers on your airline, and then check the seat map on the upgrade days.
Before dinner, I sneak up to "XL" class, as it's known, right at the front of the plane, to check on the upgraded honeymooners Alpa and Kamles, who are already tucking into their food (there's a choice of Malaysian or European).
The analyst cited "favorable observations" on recent tours and from industry channel checks for the upgrade.
If you're all about being in control, changing your seats and checking the status of your upgrades, though, chances are you'll still want to stick with the airline's own app.In addition to now being able to check you in to your flights, the Assistant can now also book hotels for you.
More surprising, the study said that the practice of charging extra fees to check bags, upgrade to roomier seats and collect loyalty reward points, among other charges, has spread to nearly every carrier in the world.
I do sometimes wish I could stop the installation of IE7 right there but sadly Windows Update only works with IE. Currently I have IE7 Beta3 running on my desktop and I nearly pushed the button to upgrade but then I checked the IEBlog comments and right now there seems to be a lot of negative issues regarding the upgrade.
The site also will include a link for customers to check their upgrade eligibility and other wireless account information.
"Check how much the upgraded room would have cost you in the first place," Mr. Ollila said, adding that it might still be worth bargaining to see what you could get without charge.
If you're one of the many buyers of the hot Zune30 or Zune80, you'll want to check out the firmware upgrade which should be hitting at some point today.
